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- 01 Dec 2009
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Prof’s Dream Comes True
Tufano Tax refunds can now be channeled into the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds, a policy victory for HBS professor Peter Tufano (left), founder and president of the nonprofit Doorway to Dreams Fund (D2D) that has worked for years to...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Empowering women to lead
she rose from junior ranks to CEO in just over five years. Her career path also included time at Goldman Sachs and Bain & Company. Currently, in addition to teaching at Duke, Hood works with philanthropists and nonprofits to maximize the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Dreaming big for Africa’s future
and power generation. Helios also annually contributes a fixed percentage of its gross fee income to nonprofit groups and programs in Africa that improve access to education and health care for the underprivileged. Lawani credits HBS for...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
nonprofit conducts field research, oversees data collection and processing, and presents clients with key findings, program implications, and implementation recommendations and tools. “The data we generate helps managers make the best...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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A game-changer for migrant students
whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Although Curiel was able to go to college, a basic education for children who live by the cycle of fruit harvests is often out of reach. The nonprofit helps migrant students prepare...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
public policy, and then came to HBS to broaden his understanding of the private sector and how it can collaborate with government and nonprofits to achieve social improvements. Jefferson has distinguished himself at both KSG and HBS as an...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
supplement lower-paying internships (for example, at nonprofits and startups). In a typical year, about 250 first-year students are awarded summer fellowships. This year, some 750 first- and second-year students received them. “I got to...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Science Buddy
ScienceBuddies.org, a nonprofit designed to engage high-school students in hands-on science. Because choosing and getting started with a science project is often the hardest part for youngsters, the site asks students 26 questions about...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Helping smallholder farmers feed the world
Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) doesn’t want to just alleviate global hunger and poverty. He wants to eradicate these problems. That has been his focus since 2010, when he became president and CEO of Heifer International, the Little Rock, Arkansas-based View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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A Helping Hand
economic power to really shape the world, and that always stuck with me.” Rice subsequently founded a nonprofit organization, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), to help educate young people about, and prepare them for, business...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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The Natural World
middle of the night wondering how I was going to get my job done,” recalled Tercek. “That never happened to me at Goldman Sachs.” Tercek has found that “a mission-driven nonprofit is harder to manage than you think,” in part because of...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
barely spoke during those years. In 1967 I became president of Emerson College, where the General’s wife was a trustee! Doriot and I got reacquainted, which led to a long-delayed sharing of his immense goodwill and deep understanding of the subtleties of View Details
- 02 May 2016
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Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
Veteran entrepreneur and public education innovator Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) is on a mission to get kids excited about math. In addition to his profit-sector job as executive chairman of ANC Sports Enterprises, Daugherty has been the driving force behind NBA Math...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Takes One to Know One
Relations team in supporting and enabling our alumni and the School to continue making a difference in the world.” Cahill previously headed Alumni Marketing and Communications and Alumni Clubs and Associations within External Relations. She has worked with many View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Giving Back
and CEO for ten years at National Industries for the Blind, a venerable nonprofit that he turned into a results-oriented, 21st-century enterprise that enhances economic opportunities and professional development for people who are blind....
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
topic and, in 1994, to found the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a nonprofit organization that aims to catalyze innercity business development across the United States. In frequent talks around the country, Porter...
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- 24 Mar 2020
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Stopgap Schooling
As Salman Khan (MBA 2003) tracked the spread of the COVID-19 virus and news that schools were shuttering, he knew that the nonprofit Khan Academy was uniquely positioned to help the many families whose children would suddenly be missing...
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- 27 Jul 2016
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
greater good that we should be part of. “Because of HBS, I was able to bring management skills into the nonprofit world. We bring social workers into schools where children are dealing with so many barriers, most of which have to do with...
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- 10 Feb 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes micro-enterprise loans and business...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
undertaking," he remarks. "I remember wondering, 'How in the name of God do they put this whole thing together?'" As executive director of the nonprofit Opera Company of Philadelphia, Mulroney is now responsible for doing just that. In...
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